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Imperium Eternal

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We thought it was a mistake initially. Onboard the Imperial Navy frigate Imperium Eternal, we dropped out of the warp at the Mandeville point for Bakka, intent on returning to the…

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Half Past Midnight

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The decommissioned maglift convulses during its thousand kilometer climb, but the fear of plummeting does not dissuade my haste. Above the dark, ice-sheathed oceans, a stranger awaits.Centuries had passed since…

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Silence Descends

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Blinking rapidly, she gazes upwards as another plummeting star enters the atmosphere, its beautiful, blazing journey ending beyond the mountain ridge.'Carla, come on, he's going to speak,' shouts Arik, his…

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Exitus Ultima

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She ran, there was nothing else she could do. She was no mighty Sororitas, no fiery confessor, not even a strong enforcer of the Frater Militia. She was but a…

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Ad Finitum

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Eight feathers left, their multichromatic lustre slowly turning ashen grey. A feather falls, drifting away on unseen winds. The flesh hound runs not from the crimson corpse mounds crumbling into nothingness…

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In Search of Peace

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The heavy bolter thunders, eye-smiting flares belching from the barrel, the grips skinning palms already red-raw and slicked with blood. The fusillade is devastating; her skull throbs, her eyes burn…

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Da Boy on Da Moon

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Rezdek watched in confusion as the ship pulled away from the void-scarred moon. “Dey’ll be back, I reckin.” He said to himself, of course there was no atmosphere, so he didn’t…

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The Last Hope

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From the flames, a single ship darts out into the void. A single golden shard lost to the darkness, as the last Craftworld falls.  Alone at the helm, Arhanas fights…

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Read more about the article The Last One Hundred Lasguns

The Last One Hundred Lasguns

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The air was a thick soup of infestation. Tyrannocytes punctured the storm-wracked skies of Segmentum Solar. Microscopic nano-spores swirled in every breath. The Tyranid microorganisms invaded the cavernous prime manufactorum…

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The End of Truth

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Amadeus stared at the blank parchment, unused ink and quill beside it. He felt his stomach tighten, ever-familiar anxiousness filling him. The emptiness of the page threatened to swallow him.…

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